Annabelle is the wise-beyond-her-years newcomer to an exclusive Catholic girls school. Having been expelled from her first two schools she's bound to stir some trouble. Sparks fly though when sexual chemistry appears between her and the Head of her dorm and English teacher, Simone Bradley. Annabelle pursues her relentlessly and until the end the older woman manages to avoid the law.
Acting
Diane Gaidry's trembling restraint vs. Erin Kelly's reckless pursuit.
Direction
Katherine Brooks makes Catholic guilt look almost delicious.
Cinematography
Soft, sun-drenched boarding school aesthetic that wants to be touched.
Director
Katherine Brooks
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Erin Kelly was 21 playing 17; Diane Gaidry was 40. The actual age gap fueled the film's authentic discomfort.
Pre-Call Me By Your Name, this was one of the few films centering a queer age-gap romance without complete moralizing—though debate rages whether that's progress or problem.
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